Normalized claim
Time: 100% increase
Doubled calculation speed (100% increase in calculation time efficiency)
Last evidence check: Jul 22, 2026
UBS revolutionized financial risk-management using Microsoft Cloud
Use case typeRisk assessmentUpdated Jun 13, 2026
UBS, the world’s largest wealth manager, leveraged Microsoft Azure's cloud technology to enhance its risk-management platform as part of its digital transformation strategy. By utilizing Azure’s extensive computing capabilities, UBS achieved a massive improvement in calculation speed and a significant cost reduction. On Azure, the platform processes millions of calculations daily, supports regulatory compliance through Microsoft's Financial Services Compliance program, and facilitates expanding its services by migrating more business applications to the cloud.
- Organization
- UBS
- Industry
- Finance
- Location
- Switzerland
- Published
- May 2017
Reported outcomes
Time: +100%
Time & speed
Cost: −40%
Catalog median for time & speed deployments: +59% across 138 reported metrics. Compare benchmarks →
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Normalized claim
Cost: 40% decrease
Reduced infrastructure costs by 40%
Last evidence check: Jul 22, 2026
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- UBS
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Unknown
- Linked source
- Microsoft News Center
No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated
Primary read
Use case focus
Showing 3 of 4
- 1AI-driven financial risk modeling and simulation
- 2Automated risk report generation and regulatory compliance checks
- 3On-demand risk exposure calculation for portfolios
- Migrated risk management platform to Microsoft Azure
- Leveraged Azure's elastic cloud computing to process millions of calculations on demand
- Utilized Microsoftâs Financial Services Compliance program for regulatory assurance
- Began cloud migration for additional business applications to Azure
Doubled calculation speed (100% increase in calculation time efficiency)
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Independent source available
- Quantified outcome available
- Recent evidence check available
- Last evidence check: Jul 22, 2026.
ExpandedExpanded
The same organization appears in newer AI deployment evidence.
- Same organization re-documented as recently as 2025.
- Cited source last checked Jun 12, 2026 — ok (0/1 broken).
Measures whether this deployment's public evidence persists — not whether the system is still in production.
Type: News ArticlePublished: May 17, 2017Publisher: Microsoft News CenterEvidence: SecondaryConfidence: Low
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